| Literature DB >> 16891615 |
Joachim D K Uys1, Lelanie Marais, Jacqueline Faure, Desiree Prevoo, Pieter Swart, Abdul H Mohammed, Dan J Stein, Willie M U Daniels.
Abstract
Effects of early-life trauma on adult behavioral responses, corticosterone (CORT) concentration, and levels of nerve growth factor (NGF), brain-derived neutrophic factor (BDNF), and neurotrophin-3 (NT-3) in hippocampus and frontal cortex were investigated. Traumatized animals showed an increase in rearing in both the elevated plus maze and open field after adult restress, higher basal levels of CORT, lower levels of BDNF in dorsal hippocampus, and lower levels of NT-3 in dorsal and ventral hippocampus. Trauma-related behavioral hyperarousal and altered hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis activity may be mediated by decreases in hippocampal neurotrophin expression.Entities:
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Year: 2006 PMID: 16891615 DOI: 10.1196/annals.1364.060
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Ann N Y Acad Sci ISSN: 0077-8923 Impact factor: 5.691